Excellent Technology/Pathetic Follow through…

News&Views
The Armchair Curmudgeon
March 29, 2007

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“Katrinizing” the Military!

You won’t believe this….


Our unmanned drone, the Predator, has everyone asking for it. The demand is so great we can’t keep up.

To meet demand, we’ve already shipped 153 Predators at a hefty 4.5 million dollars each.

Sounds like a win-win. Right?

Wrong!

Why? We’ve already lost 40% of them!....

That’s not good.

So what do we do about it? We build more.

But that’s not all!

We don’t have the trained teams to operate them.

And we haven’t anticipated demand.

So, we have a bunch of Predators out there, the ones we can find, but nobody knows how to use them.

Does this sound like the US or not?

You would think that someone would at least get their hands slapped for misplacing over 200 million dollars worth of top secret new equipment wouldn’t you?

But, no, life goes on at the Pentagon as before…

The best technology with pathetic follow through.

Nonetheless, there is some good news.
We are, however, rushing to fulfill demand. Even though it takes three months to train a team.

Hopefully, we will get back in sync with one of our newest high tech, top security programs before the world comes to the realization that Katrina was not the exception,
It was the rule.

Maybe we should outsource the Pentagon, too….

Les Aaron
The Armchair Curmudgeon